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Echeandia
Sign in to saveEcheandia (common name craglily) is a genus of New World plants in the century plant subfamily within the asparagus family.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassLiliopsida
- OrderAsparagales
- FamilyAsparagaceae
Native toArgentina Northwest, Arizona, Belize, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf
Observations recorded8,776
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 378
- With media
- 175
- Family
- Asparagaceae
- Collections
- CICY, INECOL, FC-UNAM, UACH, UNICACH, IEA-UAT
- Recorded in
- Mexico
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Description
- Species
- References
- External links
Echeandia (common name craglily) is a genus of New World plants in the century plant subfamily within the asparagus family.
==Etymology== It is named for Spanish botanist Pedro Gregorio Echeandía (1746–1817). Species in the genus are distributed from the south-western United States south to north-western Argentina, southern Bolivia, and southern Peru.
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